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Secular Student Alliance International Resources

The Secular Student Alliance is currently only taking affiliate applications from student groups who meet our minimum standards within the United States. Current international affiliate groups who maintain their affiliation with us are welcome to retain their SSA affiliation, however we can only offer limited services and resources to those affiliates. We currently are not accepting any new affiliates who are based outside the US.

If you are a current international student group who is affiliated with SSA, please review the lists below outlining the services and resources that are and are not available outside North America to prevent confusion about how we can support your group.

Services Available to International Groups:The following services are available to our overseas affiliates. Currently we only offer materials in English, and we do recognize that many of our group-running documents are US-centric (though many are also applicable in any part of the world).

Services Unavailable Internationally:Regretfully, the following services are currently limited to North America.

Group Starting Packets

Project Grants

Speakers Bureau

Awards

Conferences and Leadership Events (and associated funding)

Any and all types of grants or funding that we may offer

Tabling Supplies

Media Contacts

Branded Affiliate Program (due to service mark restrictions)

Business Cards

Help Us Improve!If you or your group has developed a resource, activity packet, non-English flyers or documentation, or other materials that you feel would be helpful to other international SSA affiliates, we would love to share them. We are always happy to be able to improve our services and resources for international groups - and you can help make that happen. Contact organizer@secularstudents.org if you have a resource you would like to share.

Additional Support

There are several other organizations that exist to support organizations in all parts of the world. We recommend that you contact these organizations to see what support they can offer to your group.

Atheist Alliance International www.atheistalliance.orgAAI is a democratic association of independent, autonomous atheist societies. The goal of the Alliance is to establish strong, democratic atheist organizations in every state, and indeed, worldwide.

International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) www.iheu.orgIHEU was founded in 1952 in Amsterdam and is the only umbrella organization of Humanist, rationalist, atheist, secularist, ethical culture and agnostic groups around the world. IHEU's member organizations range from large membership groups to publishers, universities and development agencies. The IHEU also supports the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization (IHEYO).

International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization (IHEYO)www.iheyo.org The International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organisation (IHEYO) is devoted to promoting the spread of humanism among young people. IHEYO is working together with many groups and individuals around the world. With humanism in practice IHEYO means all humanist, freethinker, laique, skeptic, rationalist, atheist, agnostics, etc. groups.

The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS)www.ahsstudents.org.uk/The AHS is an umbrella organization which represents atheist, Humanist and secular student societies in the United Kingdom. It provides support and resources for established and newly-forming societies as well as a national voice.

Freethought Student Alliancewww.freethoughtalliance.org.au/The Freethought Student Alliance connects student leaders from around Australia to help them work together and grow as a collective student movement dedicated to furthering science, reason and secular values in Australian society. The Alliance aims to provide students with useful advice, resources and networking opportunities, and also support students planning to start new groups on university campuses.

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science / OUT Campaignwww.richarddawkinsfoundation.org/The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and suffering. RDFRS works with other like-minded organizations and initiated the OUT Campaign with its scarlet A to give voice to non-believers around the globe.